When you realize it is impossible to appeal to common sense or self-interest...

[kentuck]

When you come to realize that it is serves no purpose to call people morons, fools, brain-washed idiots, or unpatriotic fatalists. They no longer hear. They are deaf to reason.

It is a sad feeling when you realize that nothing you can say or do will prevent them from marching off the cliff. Words no longer have any meaning to them. They wish to take everyone else with them.

You then begin to believe that experience is the only teacher. We are on a dark and dangerous path that we must follow to its end.

Or, we can get off the path. There is nothing else we can do but let them continue their march of destruction. We do not have to follow them.

We tried.

Turn them loose.

Let them go.

There is no more energy to waste.

[FM123]

1. Your words are so true.

[CanSocDem]

2. OTOH...

"If a man does not keep pace

with his companions, perhaps it is because

he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music he hears,

however measured or far away."

Henry David Thoreau

We all had this posted on our walls in the 60's and 70's. Taught us to look a little deeper.


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[kentuck]

5. For some reason...

I think Thoreau was talking about a different type of drummer than the one that is pounding today...

[Mister Ed]

3. It's like talking with someone who's hallucinating, and believes their hallucinations are real...

...and that reality is fake.

That's what I finally had to conclude about a certain co-worker of mine.